Workers – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Fri, 20 Oct 2017 18:25:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i2.wp.com/www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Workers – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 The Anatomy of a Worker Bee https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-anatomy-of-a-worker-bee/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-anatomy-of-a-worker-bee/#comments Tue, 23 May 2017 18:59:07 +0000 http://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=3443 A honey bee is approximately a half of an inch long. Though tiny, it is made up of many complicated and interesting parts. The honey bee is one of the most streamline designs of any creature. Each part is tailored to a specific purpose, and does that purpose well.     The body of a […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-anatomy-of-a-worker-bee/feed/ 8 The House Bee and the Field Bee https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-house-bee-and-the-field-bee/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-house-bee-and-the-field-bee/#comments Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:29:30 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=3393 When you open your hive and look at the busy moving mass of tiny golden bodies, it is but a mere snapshot of the working hive. The bee colony is constantly regenerating itself. In fact, every 6 weeks or so you essentially have a new hive. Any bees that were born two months ago have […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-house-bee-and-the-field-bee/feed/ 1 The Life Cycle of a Baby Bee https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-life-cycle-of-a-baby-bee/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-life-cycle-of-a-baby-bee/#comments Sat, 22 Apr 2017 15:52:12 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=3381 As beekeepers, the ability to monitor our hives comes in short bursts of activity usually  in the form of regular hive inspections. For the most part, unless you have an observation hive, this time spent deep in the nitty gritty of the bee’s daily life is only for a few short moments. As we remove […]

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